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Cont: Jeffrey MacDonald did it. He really did. Part II

There is an interesting opinion about the MacDonald case and what happened by former MacDonald lawyer Harvey Silverglate:

But the real burden of the case was not primarily financial; it was professional and, as it turned out, philosophical and psychological. The case would confirm all my worst suspicions about the criminal justice system in general, and the U.S. Department of Justice and the federal courts in particular. Beginning in the mid-1980s, I began noticing a perceptible shift in the culture of the federal criminal justice system. The public still clung to a weathered image of the DOJ and the federal courts as agents of change — protectors of civil rights and civil liberties, squeaky clean institutions in an otherwise corrupt sea of crooked cops and local courts. But the era of Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, hero of the Southern civil rights movement under Lyndon Johnson, had ended, and the era of John Mitchell, Richard Nixon’s dour and shadowy henchman, was in full flower. And the malign influence of J. Edgar Hoover has long survived his death."
 
I remember one of these biased North Carolina judges saying once in a legal document, I think it was Judge Fox, that actual innocence is not a grounds for appeal. If that's the law then the law is an ass.
 
Hearsay, I think?

The first half of your first sentence is totally inadmissible.

You can’t just pull that stuff out and expect to be taken seriously.
 
It was a con job by Murtagh who coached and bribed witnesses as he did in the Lockerbie case. Murtagh was later promoted for that. It was quite ludicrously unsatisfactory evidence. A good appeal judge should have been able to see that :

"Last month, Senior U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox ruled that MacDonald's lawyers failed to establish that he shouldn't have been found guilty of the murder of his wife and two daughters. Fox also said MacDonald's lawyers failed to establish the merits of new evidence presented at a seven-day hearing in September 2012.

As part of his 169-page order, Fox also denied a certificate of appealability, leaving the future of the case in question. In the recent motion, MacDonald's lawyers said the DOJ report calls into question a former FBI investigator who worked on the MacDonald case. That former investigator, Michael Malone, testified that synthetic hairs found in the MacDonald home most likely belonged to a doll. MacDonald's lawyers had argued the hairs bolstered MacDonald's account of the attack that killed his family - that the hairs belonged to a wig worn by one of the attackers. MacDonald's lawyers said they were unaware the federal government was investigating Malone. "The Department of Justice and FBI spent the last several years reviewing Michael Malone's work-product and trial testimony to determine whether Malone provided invalid, unreliable, or false hair identification testimony," according to the motion. "The DOJ criticized Malone's testimony because he failed to perform his tests in a scientifically acceptable manner. "
 
Exactly

That’s why he’s in a cage where he belongs.

You have absolutely no proof for the hearsay, innuendo and slanderous posts.
 
GiSEQ said:
That’s why he’s in a cage where he belongs.

You have absolutely no proof for the hearsay, innuendo and slanderous posts.
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I agree that there is no proof that MacDonald is guilty. It was manufactured evidence and made up by Murtagh who coached the witnesses. The judges and jury were not impartial. North Carolina needs to stop prosecuting lawyers and journalists and forensic whores and soldiers prosecuting innocent people and do what is right instead of saying they are very sorry after the event. It's sticking to a mistake through thick and thin. Just look at General Austen and Afghanistan. They haven't got the brains and they don't understand what is going on.
 
From that statement by Ferrari:

"Q And in the final exit meeting where Dr. Froede spoke in summarizing the findings of the AFIP, was there any statement made that there was certain evidence which links Dr. MacDonald to these killings or which showed that he was involved in these killings?
A No. On the contrary, Dr. Froede, if anything, helped all of us to believe on the basis of what was presented, there was no way they could implicate or connect Dr. MacDonald with the homicides that occurred at Fort Bragg. In fact, Dr. Froede was or appeared to be assured on the basis of what he really had at his disposal to reach a conclusion.
He would not commit himself, but he did say this, on the basis of what he had, there were no way that the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology would return a report indicating that, any implication of Dr. MacDonald."
 
It's sticking to a mistake through thick and thin. It's bad courts and bad judges who convict the innocent. He was a scapegoat and framed. Juries are very likely to be wrong and it's not good enough to say it doesn't matter or you don't really care.
 
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